I'm still confused why we didn't use timeouts inside the last 4 minutes when it was clear BYU was in

Tebow mode and going to score.

There was one point where they ran about 1:30 off the clock just standing around right before the 2:00 warning.

At that point, you have to concede the TD and save as much clock as possible for the next drive.

As we saw, timeouts were less valuable than time. If you believe in your offense and playcalling time is the most important thing. If we had back 1:30 or so that would have made a much greater difference than the missing 1 second.